Changing Roles of Librarians and Library Technicians
What significant changes are librarians and library technicians experiencing in their roles? A survey put forward across Canada to librarians and library techni...
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Developing Infrastructure to Support Closer Collaboration of Aggregators with Open Repositories
The amount of open access content stored in repositories has increased dramatically, which has created new technical and organisational challenges for bringing ...
Managing open access with EPrints software: a case study
Recent additional open access (OA) requirements for publications by authors at UK higher education institutions require amendments to support mechanisms. These ...
The application of bibliometrics to research evaluation in the humanities and social sciences: an exploratory study using normalized Google Scholar data for the publications of a research institute
In the humanities and social sciences, bibliometric methods for the assessment of research performance are (so far) less common. The current study takes a concr...
Beams of Particles and Papers. The Role of Preprint Archives in High Energy Physics
In high energy physics scholarly papers circulate primarily through online preprint archives based on a centralized repository, arXiv.org, that physicists simpl...
Preplication, Replication: A Proposal to Efficiently Upgrade Journal Replication Standards
Despite 20 years of progress in promoting replication standards in International Relations (IR), significant problems remain in both the provision of data and t...
Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions
Textbooks are a vital component in many higher education contexts. Increasing textbook prices, coupled with general rising costs of higher education have led so...